DIR ® looks at the whole child, neverteaching isolated skills or componentparts.Developmental Language Intervention seeslanguage as a process that occurs as the´wholeµ child interacts with their world ina dynamic way. Natural learningenvironments are encouraged and skills arenot taught in isolation.

Ricamato, 2009

Language Development

When we begin to look at languagedevelopment, we must see it as adynamic process that is impacted andeffected by other areas of growthand development.In other words, language doesn·tdevelop in a vacuum.